In May 2015, the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA68.1, approving a total Programme budget of US$ 4385 million for the biennium 2016–2017, comprising a base programme component (US$ 3194 million) and a component on polio eradication, outbreak and crisis response, tropical disease research and research in human reproduction (US$ 1191 million).

In accordance with operative paragraph 3(8) of resolution WHA69.10 (2016), the Director-General was requested “to develop, in consultation with Member States, a set of criteria and principles for secondments1 to WHO from nongovernmental organizations, philanthropic foundations and academic institutions and to submit the criteria and principles for the consideration of and establishment by, as appropriate, the Seventieth World Health Assembly, through the Executive Board, taking into account,

In January 2017, the Programme Budget and Administration Committee at its twenty-fifth meeting and the Executive Board at its 140th session considered and noted an earlier version of this report.1 The Committee and the Executive Board provided further guidance on the implementation of the Framework including training and orientation for WHO staff on the Framework, support from the Secretariat to the Committee in overseeing and reporting on implementation to the Executive Board, vigilance to

This report is submitted in response to Health Assembly resolution WHA69.6 (2016) and provides an update on the preparation for the third High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, to be held in 2018, including the responses to specific assignments given to the Secretariat.

In order that WHO may deliver the approved programme budget, contributions from Member States must be received in full and on time. Under Financial Regulation 6.4, all Member States are required to pay their contribution as of 1 January of the year to which it relates. The rate of collection for 2016 was 88%, up from 80% for 2015.

In May 2003, the Fifty-sixth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA56.33, in which it decided, inter alia, to accept henceforth the latest available United Nations scale of assessment for assessed contributions of Member States. In January 2017, the Executive Board at its 140th session adopted resolution EB140.R6, in which it recommended to the Seventieth World Health Assembly the adoption of the scale of assessments for the financial period 2018−2019 set out in that resolution.

Further to resolution WHA65.19 (2012) and decision WHA68(12) (2015), a review of the Member State mechanism on substandard/spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit medical products was conducted, covering the period 2012–2016. At the fourth meeting of the Member State mechanism in November 2015, there was agreement that the review process should be led by the WHO Evaluation Office.1

In accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 54 of the International Health Regulations (2005) and resolution WHA61.2 (2008), States Parties and the Director-General report annually to the Health Assembly on the implementation of the Regulations. The current document gives an account of actions taken by the States Parties and the Secretariat within the framework of the Regulations since the last report considered by the Health Assembly in May 2016.1

In May 2016, the Director-General submitted the recommendations of the Review Committee on the Role of the International Health Regulations (2005) in the Ebola Outbreak and Response to the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly.1 The Health Assembly adopted decision WHA69(14) in which, inter alia, it requested the Director-General “to develop for the consideration of the Regional Committees in 2016 a draft global implementation plan for the recommendations of the Review Committee that includes im

In November 2014, FAO and WHO jointly hosted the Second International Conference on Nutrition, which adopted the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and its companion Framework for Action.1 In 2015, the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA68.19, in which it endorsed the outcome documents of that Conference and requested the Director-General, in collaboration with the Director-General of the FAO and other United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and other relevant regional